NCT05025202

Blood Pressure and Cardiac Autonomic Adaptations to Isometric Exercise Training

Blood Pressure and Cardiac Autonomic Adaptations to Isometric Exercise Training: a Randomised Sham-controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Canterbury Christ Church University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A randomized, sham-controlled intervention measuring the effects of isometric exercise training (IET) on blood pressure and cardiac autonomics. IET has been proven effective in a plethora of randomized trials, but very little research has employed a sham-controlled design. This researched involved the recruitment of 30 participants who completed a 4 week IET intervention, sham control of the IET intervention, or a non-intervention control period. Pre and post blood pressure and cardiac autonomic measures were acquired and analysed. The hypothesis of this trial was a significant effect of IET on blood pressure, with no such effects following the sham control or normal control interventions.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Isometric exercise training	A form of exercise involving static contraction against a wall, sustained for 2 minutes x4 sets per session. 3 sessions a week were required. The intensity was designed to achieve 95% of the participants maximum heart rate.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-15
• Primary completion: 2019-12-29
• Completion: 2020-09-11
• First posted: 2021-08-27
• Last updated: 2021-09-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom